Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab

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Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab
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Coat of arms of Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab
Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab (Austria)
Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab
Basic data
Country: Austria
State : Styria
Political District : Wheat
License plate : WZ
Surface: 41.08 km²
Coordinates : 47 ° 9 '  N , 15 ° 40'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 9 '14 "  N , 15 ° 39' 44"  E
Height : 388  m above sea level A.
Residents : 5,419 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code : 8181
Area code : 03178
Community code : 6 17 65
NUTS region AT224
UN / LOCODE AT RRA
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Untere Hauptstrasse 27
8181 Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab
Website: www.ruprecht.at
politics
Mayor : Herbert Pregartner ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015)
(21 members)
11
4th
3
3
11 4th 3 3 
A total of 21 seats
Location of Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab in the Weiz district
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Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab is a market town with 5419 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in Styria . As part of the municipal structural reform in Styria , the municipalities of Etzersdorf-Rollsdorf and Unterfladnitz were incorporated on January 1, 2015 .

geography

The municipality covers an area of ​​41.08 km² and is located on the B 64 state road in the Weiz district in the Austrian state of Styria .

Community structure

The municipal area comprises 13 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020), nine of which were added in the course of the municipal merger:

  • Former municipality of Etzersdorf-Rollsdorf
    • Etzersdorf (524)
    • Lohngraben (258)
    • Rollsdorf (394)
  • Former municipality of Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab
    • Fünfing near Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab (888)
    • Grub near Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab (209)
    • Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab (1229)
    • Wolfgruben near Sankt Ruprecht adRaab (211)
  • Former municipality of Unterfladnitz
    • Arndorf near Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab (245)
    • Dietmannsdorf (89)
    • Kühwiesen (250)
    • Neudorf near Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab (315)
    • Unterfladnitz (312)
    • Wollsdorf (495)

The community consists of twelve cadastral communities

  • Arndorf (260.47 ha)
  • Dietmannsdorf (260.95 ha)
  • Etzersdorf (658.21 ha)
  • Fünfing near St. Ruprecht (278.34 ha)
  • Grub (277.29 ha)
  • Kühwiesen (315.38 ha)
  • Lohngraben (687.13 ha)
  • Neudorf near St. Ruprecht (212.12 ha)
  • St. Ruprecht an der Raab (173.93 ha)
  • Unterfladnitz (262.70 ha)
  • Wolfsgruben near St. Ruprecht (450.09 ha)
  • Wollsdorf (274.55 ha)

Neighboring communities

One of the eight neighboring communities is in the Graz-Umgebung district  (GU).

Wheat Thannhausen Puch near Weiz
Mitterdorf on the Raab Neighboring communities Ilztal
Eggersdorf near Graz (GU) Ludersdorf-Wilfersdorf Albersdorf-Prebuch

history

Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab is one of the oldest Styrian places. When it was first mentioned in 860, it was still called ad Rapam . Emperor Friedrich III. raised the place to the market on September 1, 1462.

1934-1938

During the National Socialist July Putsch , on July 25, 1934, St. Ruprecht was the meeting place for the local Nazi formations, which opened fire on them when the executive branch approached. A Schutzkorpsmann was killed. Three participants in the July coup were sentenced to life, 15 and 10 years imprisonment after its crackdown.

The following year, on July 4, 1935, there were again fatalities in St. Ruprecht. On that day, two cyclists were stopped in the market by a gendarme and taken to the post because one of the two could not identify himself. During the subsequent search, communist documents were seized, whereupon one of the two men shot the gendarmerie officer, who was alone at the post, with a hidden pistol. The fugitives ultimately ended their lives by suicide after they were surrounded by gendarmerie and home guard units in the courtyard of the house in which they had been hiding and it was impossible to escape.

The Anschluss in 1938 was celebrated in St. Ruprecht one day before the German troops marched into Austria. On March 11, 1938, the population held a large torchlight procession in the market, which was decorated with swastika flags, and the mayor gave a speech. In the referendum on April 10th, which was supposed to sanction the reintegration of Austria into the German Reich, all 555 voters in St. Ruprecht voted “Yes”. For this, the citizens of the market were awarded a “Fuehrer's Certificate of Honor”. Parades, speeches and celebrations also determined the following months in St. Ruprecht and were intended to make the residents aware of the " Volksgemeinschaft " propagated by the National Socialists .

Community mergers

On January 1, 2015, the municipalities of Unterfladnitz and Etzersdorf-Rollsdorf were incorporated into the market municipality as part of the Styrian municipal structural reform. This increased the area of ​​the municipality from 11.79 km² to 41.08 km², which more than tripled the area. The population also doubled from 2,244 to 4,927 (as of January 1, 2014).

Economy and Infrastructure

Rail transport

Sankt Ruprecht is connected to the Weizer Bahn with a train station . In 2001, ticket sales at the station ceased, but the station building remained.

Culture and sights

St. Ruprecht Church
Breitegg Calvary Church

politics

The mayor is Herbert Pregartner, the 1st Vice Mayor is Werner Reisenhofer and the 2nd Vice Mayor is Thomas Matzer. After the 2015 municipal council elections, the municipal council will be composed as follows:

coat of arms

  • Coats of arms of the previous municipalities

  • Etzersdorf-Rollsdorf

  • Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab

  • Unterfladnitz

With the merger of the three municipalities, the coats of arms of the merged municipalities lost their official validity. The first municipal coat of arms for Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab was awarded with effect from March 1, 1994. The blazon (description of the coat of arms) read:

“In a blue shield, a silver church facing forward with its gate and window openings, with a square tower on the side with a round arched window each under the pointed roof with a weathercock, the lowered apse and the nave with round arched gate up to two raised round arched windows each; the pointed gable front is structured by a high arched gate, two arched windows and one circular window, apse and gable each equipped with a cross; the church is accompanied by a silver salt barrel at the top left. "
AUT Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab COA.png

A new municipal coat of arms for the merged municipality was awarded by the Styrian state government with effect from September 30, 2019.

The changed blazon reads:

"In red and silver a church facing forward, with its gate and window openings black openwork, with a square tower on the side with a round arched window each under the pointed roof with a weathercock, the lowered apse and the nave with round arched gate up to two raised round arched windows each, the pointed gable front is structured by a high arched gate, two arched windows and one circular window, apse and gable each equipped with a cross; the church is accompanied at the top right by a silver salt vat, on the left by a silver round window in the form of a rosette made of twelve circularly pierced rays, the center of the circle covered with a golden six-petalled heraldic rose. Underneath a blue, silver-bordered wave bar, in the green shield base three silver spring knot flowers protruding from the edge of the shield, each with 1: 2: 1 flowers. "

The new coat of arms has thus combined elements from all previous municipalities.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

  • Erwin Klauber (* 1927), Mayor of St. Ruprecht an der Raab 1965–1974 (awarded 1987)
  • Ludwig Bloder († 2017), Mayor of St. Ruprecht an der Raab 1974–1999

Sons and daughters of the church

  • August Janisch (* 1942), Roman Catholic Clergyman
  • Johann Weiß (1850–1919), Dr. theol., Univ.-Prof. and rector of the Karl-Franzens-University Graz

Personalities associated with the community

literature

  • Robert F. Hausmann (Ed.): Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab. Contributions to the history of an East Styrian market town. Self-published by the municipality of St. Ruprecht an der Raab in 1995.

Web links

Commons : Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Styrian municipal structural reform .
  2. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
  3. ↑ Gerald Wolf: St. Ruprecht an der Raab in the 20th century. In: Robert F. Hausmann (Ed.): Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab. Contributions to the history of an East Styrian market town. Self-published by the municipality of St. Ruprecht an der Raab 1995, pp. 329–376, here p. 341.
  4. ↑ Gerald Wolf: St. Ruprecht an der Raab in the 20th century. In: Robert F. Hausmann (Ed.): Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab. Contributions to the history of an East Styrian market town. Self-published by the municipality of St. Ruprecht an der Raab 1995, p. 342.
  5. ↑ Gerald Wolf: St. Ruprecht an der Raab in the 20th century. In: Robert F. Hausmann (Ed.): Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab. Contributions to the history of an East Styrian market town. Self-published by the municipality of St. Ruprecht an der Raab 1995, p. 343 f.
  6. ^ Announcements from the Styrian State Archives 47, 1997, p. 42
  7. ↑ 68. Announcement of the Styrian state government of September 12th on the granting of the right to use a municipal coat of arms to the market town of Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab (political district of Weiz) , ris.bka.gv.at, accessed on September 17, 2019.